Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) Ionic, .NET, SharePoint, Office 365, Mobile Development, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

The new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center is starting to roll out to first release. This post will show you some of the highlights and how to get started. First, you have to know where to find it. Currently, the Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center does not show up...

One particular feature in Microsoft Teams that has been a success in my organization is the use of Cloud Storage to provide a hierarchy in Microsoft Teams. If you are not familiar with what I am talking about, I am referring to the Add cloud storage link you see in the Files tab of a Team. You might...

When you create a new site Microsoft Team, it creates a site collection for you rather quickly. In general, it's ok to start working with this site collection right away. You can upload files or do whatever you need. However, you might have noticed before that certain menus are not available in Site...

If you are like me, you get a lot of receipts via e-mail for things like Internet, electricity, phone, flights, and more. These things are usually business related, but they don't always get sent to the business account. Before Flow, I used to go through my e-mail, save each one off as a PDF and...

Building SharePoint List Forms with PowerApps is starting to roll out. As you customize your forms, you may get to a point where you want to delete one of them. When you customize a SharePoint List Form in this manner, the PowerApp itself doesn’t show up in your list of apps so you might be wondering...

I’ve been building forms for a number of business processes lately using PowerApps and some of my tenants recently received the ability to customize forms in SharePoint lists using PowerApps. One common scenario is that you might want to show or hide different fields depending on whether the user is...

In case you missed it at Ignite, Microsoft announced the new SharePoint Migration Tool that lets you move files to SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365. I’ve noticed every time this tool comes up there is a lot of confusion and the conversation often ends up in the weeds. I am hoping this post clears...

At Microsoft Ignite, they announced new capabilities for working with themes on modern sites. Although, the new theme picker they have shown has not rolled out, you can still make use of the new theming capabilities right now. Here is what the old theme picker looks like. When we are done, we’ll have...

I actually use Outlook Customer Manager (OCM) quite a bit to keep track of my leads for my product BrewZap , a custom mobile app platform for breweries. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon to run into an error when launching it that says “Something went wrong”. The problem is that sometimes this error will...

For years, enterprise have been spending huge amounts of money and time building their Intranet on top of the SharePoint platform. Intranets take lots of planning and development even to get the most basic of functionality. Throw in heavy branding and responsive design and you’re looking at a significant...